Wednesday, Jul 01, 2009 at 10:59
PS - don't get sucked into the Megapixel race - more is NOT necessarily best. In the smaller cameras, the sensors start getting stretched after 8 Mpix - there are ones that are up to 12, even 14 Mpix but these use the new sensors are are not cheap.
In the lower end of the market, more than 8 Mpix means more noise and less sensitivity in the picture (noise = grain in film language).
This rule does change (the goalposts move), but at the moment it is a good rule of thumb
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